Tuesday, September 18, 2012

By Request: Some thoughts on the “47 million Americans” public display of private buffoonery…

I had the pleasure of witnessing the latest Mitt Romney
verbal malfunction unfold with a certain C-Money. We were hanging out in our couch-based lair,
checking Twitter and dropping snark for hours.

Good times!

For those who missed it, Mother Jones broke a story complete
with secret video (oooh, damn near Nixonian!) of how Mitt Romney talks about
the masses when he thinks he’s among like-minded uber rich folk.

By “masses”, I mean the 47 million Americans he was caught
on tape saying he could give a flying fuck about.

Mitt thinks we’re lazy and dependent on government. Oh, and
he also thinks we don’t pay taxes.

Pause…frown…continue.

Yeah, that bit about the taxes made my Afro hurt too, until
I realized that discussing regular people paying taxes with Mitt Romney would
be like chatting about how expensive groceries are with [insert any Romney
here].

Odds are Mitt Romney hasn’t bothered to learn how payroll
taxes work because he never had any intention of keep workers on the payroll
long enough to be taxed.

Anyhoo, at some point I mentioned how Lee Atwater would have
handled Romney’s late night press conference…and that’s when C-Money demanded a
post on this shit.

Lee Atwater was a dirty motherfucker…so dirty he was a
master at modern political dirt distribution…but at least he was good at that
shit.

When Atwater
race-baited your ass, his hook had some serious unambiguous rancid ass bait on
it. Lee put together campaigns that hit their mark with painful
accuracy…causing outrage on the side he could give a shit about and inspiring
cheers from the group he wanted to hear cheering. Atwater
was up in the head of the voters he needed to get the job
done…the job being to get [insert conservative nightmare
here] elected.

Now, we’ve got Mitt Romney fumbling through fundraising
talks trying to be all delicate about saying that if he were Latino he’d have
an easy time winning the presidency…after trying to arouse his bored as shit
audience with watered down digs at 47 percent of the nation!

Mitt has insulted half the nation and managed to do so with
such lame assedness that his base couldn’t be bothered to shrug.

This is just…disturbing.

Okay, okay…so I don’t actually want to see the second coming
of Lee Atwater.

One life-cycle of Lee was more than enough, thank you.

*wince*

But if someone is going to pander to the baser needs of his
base…and if doing so requires race-baiting elite ass dismissive comments about
voters…hell, if a candidate is going to take his campaign from zero to absolute
FUBAR in record breaking time the least he can do is make that shit interesting.

5 comments:

My wife thinks that how badly Romney's campaign is going is the kind of thing that makes people believe in a global conspiracy. She can't understand how something can go this wrong without there being some sort of larger agenda. I hate to sound like a writer for the World Nut Daily, but what if the election is a distraction?